Whenever a winning team visits the Sixers this season, the night seems to go something like this.

Fans cheer as the opposing team warms up. The Sixers keep the game close. The better team eventually blows the game open while the Sixers sit back and watch. Then the opposing team praises the Sixers afterwards.

Rinse. Recycle. Repeat.

The Miami Heat were the latest team to come into Philadelphia and hand the Sixers an embarrassing loss in front of what seemed like their own home crowd. A close game early turned into a blowout midway through the third, and a LeBron James alley-oop that brought the crowd to their feet officially put away the game.

While the few Sixers fans that were at the Wells Fargo Center to witness the Sixers 114-90 loss to the Heat likely will have a hard time coming up with positive things to say about their home team, the Heat players seemed to be impressed with what the Sixers are buidling after the game.

"They came to play today," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said after the game. "We tried to force them into turnovers, and they wouldn't do it."

The Heat's best player agreed.

"They do a great job moving the ball around" said LeBron James. "They are in an unfortunate situation tho, since they thought (Andrew) Bynum was going to be healthy."

James is not the only All-Star player to come into Philadelphia and have praise for the Sixers after the game. Chris Paul, who was MVP of the All-Star Game, had nothing but praise for Jrue Holiday after his Clippers faced the Sixers earlier this month. Those feelings were shared by James.

"Jrue is a great young player," James said after the game.

Of course, it's easy to praise a team after you just humiliated them in their own building. The Sixers may very well make a late season playoff push- although at 22-31, those chances keep slipping away. Andrew Bynum may very well come back and show enough flashes to get fans excited about next season.

None of that will matter, however, if the Sixers don't undergo an attitude change. It's one thing to lose to a team that is better then you. It's another to roll over like the Sixers did against the Heat on Saturday night, and to get openly mocked like they did against the Clippers a few weeks ago.

The problem is not completely effort, however. The Sixers do appear to still be trying. What they lack, however, is fight. Not once when the Heat were running all over them did the Sixers show one ounce of anger about it. No shoves, no hard fouls, no frustration. None.

Bad teams can win with the right attitude. Right now the Sixers have a lack of talent and fight, which needless to say, has proven not to be a winning combination.